ill-gotten gains

ill-gotten gains

money or other possessions acquired in a dishonest or illegal fashion. Bill cheated at cards and is now living on his ill-gotten gains.Mary is enjoying her ill-gotten gains. She deceived an old lady into leaving her $5,000 in her will.

ill-gotten gains

ill-gotten gains

Ill-gotten gains are money or other valuable things that someone gets illegally or in a way that is not morally good. They needed to find a route out of the country for their ill-gotten gains.Many museums are returning their ill-gotten gains.

Meanwhile, Bob is so uncomfortable with accepting the ill-gotten gains, he decides it's time to come clean about the whole sorry mess, and makes a big confession to Brenda at the grand opening of Gennie's memorial playground.

This ruling is good news because it takes ill-gotten gains out of the hands of companies who knew they were promoting a scam and gives them back to the consumers who lost millions of dollars," said Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

The Supreme Court denied the motion, saying the SEC order "does not contain an explicit finding that Bear Stearns directly obtained ill-gotten gains or profited by facilitating these trading practices,' and thus does not establish that the disgorgement was excluded from coverage.

The amount of money secured in confiscation ordered by Staffordshire Police has jumped by around 50 per cent on the previous year as detectives reclaim the ill-gotten gains of drug dealers and fraudsters.

Essam el-Gawahri, a senior justice ministry official who heads a committee in charge of uncovering ill-gotten gains, last week banned the three from leaving Egypt after investigations showed they had amassed large amounts of wealth.

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